HKS: Creating places in Lumion

HKS Inc., Dallas, Texas is a major architecture and engineering
firm in the USA, ranked #56 in the world by ENR. They were one of the
first, among the 28 firms in the top 100 list, who have started
using Lumion in
their design workflow.

“HKS has got 20 designers using Lumion for almost every
project, and the numbers of Lumion users in HKS will likely double
in a short timeframe,” explains Davis Chauviere. “The
simple reason is that with Lumion, HKS is helping the client
discover the project concept in a new setting. For example, we used
Lumion on a school project with visual clutter in front of the
school that had to be considered part of the design, and it was
vitally important that the client be involved in these
considerations during the project design. Using Lumion to easily
and quickly produce visualizations made it much simpler to explore
the model with the client, thereby making the visual clutter –
cars, traffic lights, street cables, fences – easier to point
out.”

The visual clutter needs to be considered during the design process
of a new school.

HKS – experts on healthcare and hospitality

HKS is ranked #2 in the world in healthcare design and #3 in
hospitality design by BD World Architecture. A recent
children’s hospital project by HKS was brilliantly visualized
in Lumion and included several animations, each presenting the
hospital in a different way.

“We made the hospital overgrown with plants to achieve the
desired look and feel, using more than 15,000 plants from the
Lumion library in the scene, ” states Chauviere adding,
“I don’t think many people know or appreciate the hard
work behind optimizing 3D objects to low polygon count, and still
have them look convincing. The amount of high-quality plants and 3D
objects in the Lumion library that can be used is
impressive.”

Children´s hospital with more than 15,000 plants and trees

Lumion halves the production time and doubles the design
time

For HKS, the discovery of Lumion has enormously improved their workflow,
especially when clients order animations. In weekly update
meetings, the typical workflow used to be like this: two days
designing and three days getting the model prepared and rendered.
Now HKS designers are designing for four days and the preparations
and rendering have been reduced to just one day. “This is a
huge improvement for both the client and us.” says
Chauviere

The above chart demonstrates how Lumion has redistributed the
workflow so that it is much more efficient and as a result,
designers are able to spend their time designing! This efficiency
improvement, in turn, leads to a higher quality in the design
output.

The visualization capabilities of Lumion, combined with the way
it removes workflow inefficiencies, has made it a big success for
HKS.
Davis Chauviere summed it up nicely: “Lumion enables us to
bring more value to clients during the design process, which makes
our clients happy and willing to invest in exploring and enhancing
their new buildings.”

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